Disposable acupressure relief strip

Abstract

A disposable acupressure strip providing 72 hours of nausea and vomiting relief for surgery and cancer treating patients includes a raised portion of a contact button extending from a film substrate through a cutout positioned over the P6 pericardium acupressure point on a user's wrist and secured there by a medical grade surgical adhesive tape.

1 . A disposable acupressure relief strip for the wrist of a user to mitigate the incidence of nausea and vomiting following one of a chemotherapy treatment or a surgical procedure, comprising:
 a substrate of at least 5½ inch length and 1 inch width having a film bottom surface and an adhesive surgical tape top surface;   a paper liner overlying said adhesive surgical tape top surface;   a cutout through said paper liner to said adhesive surgical tape top surface; and   a hard plastic button having a pressure sensitive adhesive backing joined to said adhesive surgical tape top surface and a raised dome portion extending from said adhesive surgical tape top surface through said cutout;   with said cutout being centered substantially equally between top and bottom edges of said substrate and substantially 1½ inches in from a first side edge thereof and with said raised dome portion of said hard plastic button configured to extend through said cutout a distance of at least 0.27 inches.   
     
     
         2 . The disposable acupressure relief strip of  claim 1  wherein said paper liner is peelable away from said adhesive surgical tape top surface in a first direction along a first side of said cutout, and in a second direction along a second side of said cutout. 
     
     
         3 . The disposable acupressure relief strip of  claim 1  wherein said first edge of said substrate is adapted for alignment at the first wrist crease between the two wrist tendons of a user. 
     
     
         4 . The disposable acupressure relief strip of  claim 1  wherein said pressure sensitive adhesive backing of said hard plastic button is of a circular configuration of a 0.52 inch diameter, and wherein said cutout is of a circular configuration of a 0.58 inch diameter. 
     
     
         5 . The disposable acupressure relief strip of  claim 1  wherein said film bottom substrate is hypo-allergenic and tearable bi-directionally. 
     
     
         6 . The disposable acupressure relief strip of  claim 1  wherein said hard plastic button is of a composition bio-compatible with human skin use pressurizings. 
     
     
         7 . The disposable acupressure relief strip of  claim 6  wherein said hard plastic button is of a medical grade injection-molded plastic of a composition to exert downward pressurizing on the human skin of between 5 and 7 pounds per square inch. 
     
     
         8 . The disposable acupressure relief strip of  claim 6  wherein said hard plastic button is of a medical grade injection-molded plastic of a composition to exert downward pressurizing on the human skin of between 5 and 7 pounds per square inch at a depth of ½ to 1 inch below the skin surface.